Folds away
Four things that fold flat when you're done
Full size when you need them, the depth of a chopping board when you don't. The whole point is the second state.
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Collapsible silicone colander
Five quarts of pasta when you need it, and grey silicone sides that fold down into the white rim when you don't, so it stores flat instead of eating a cupboard shelf.
5 quarts. Grey silicone bellows between a rigid white rim and base disc; the sides compress so the bowl stores flat. Two flat tab handles.
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Collapsible washing tub with a chopping-board floor
The white chopping board is the tub's own floor: chop on it flat, pull the sides up and it is an 8.5-quart basin, then it collapses back to 1.18 inches.
8.5 quarts, 16.7 × 12.2 in. The chopping board is the tub's own floor: walls rise 5.7 in and collapse back to a 1.18 in slab. Drain plug in the board.
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Nesting mixing bowl set
Three bowls at 1.5, 3 and 5 quarts that sit inside one another, so the whole set takes the shelf space of the largest one.
1.5, 3 and 5 quarts. Stainless steel, brushed outside and mirror-polished inside, plain rolled rims, no handles. Ships with flat lids.
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Over-the-sink dish drying rack
Fifteen stainless rods spanning the sink turn the one surface you can't normally use into drying space, then roll up into a cylinder that fits the gap beside the tap.
17.7 × 15.5 in. About fifteen bare stainless rods linked by steel side chains, so the sheet rolls up like a blind. No frame, no legs, no feet.
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Descriptions last checked against the listings on 9 August 2026.